Notable Alumnae and Faculty
- Alumnae
A large number of Bryn Mawr alumnae have gone on to become notable in their respective fields. The list includes Drew Gilpin Faust, the first woman president of Harvard University; Hanna Holborn Gray, the first woman president of a major research university (University of Chicago); modernist poets H.D., and Marianne Moore; classics scholar Edith Hamilton; social activist and feminist Grace Lee Boggs; Nobel Peace Prize winner Emily Greene Balch; geneticist Nettie Stevens; artist Anne Truitt; author Ellen Kushner; federal judge Ilana Rovner; economist Alice Rivlin; personal finance reporter Jennifer Westhoven; and movie actress Katharine Hepburn.
- Faculty
Notable faculty include Woodrow Wilson, Edmund Beecher Wilson, Thomas Hunt Morgan, mathematician Emmy Noether, classicist Richmond Lattimore, the Spanish philosopher José Ferrater Mora, Karl Kirchwey and the 10th president of Sweet Briar College Jo Ellen Parker.
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